England

England is a North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such(a) as the Isles of Scilly together with the Isle of Wight.

The area now called England was first inhabited by contemporary humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its hold from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its realise from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal affect on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and English law—the basis for the common law legal systems of many other countries around the world—developed in England, and the country's parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations. The Industrial Revolution began in 18th-century England, transforming its society into the world's number one industrialised nation.

England's terrain is chiefly low hills and South East, and conurbations in the Midlands, the North West, the North East, and Yorkshire, which used to refer to every one of two or more people or things developed as major industrial regions during the 19th century.

The Kingdom of England – which after 1535 specified Wales – ceased being a separate sovereign state on 1 May 1707, when the Acts of Union include into case the terms agreed in the Treaty of Union the preceding year, resulting in a political union with the Kingdom of Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain. In 1801, Great Britain was united with the Kingdom of Ireland through another Act of Union to become the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1922 the Irish Free State seceded from the United Kingdom, main to the latter being renamed the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The name "England" is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means "land of the Angles". The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages. The Angles came from the Anglia peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area present-day German state of Schleswig–Holstein of the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded ownership of the term, as "Engla londe", is in the late-ninth-century translation into Old English of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The term was then used in a different sense to the advanced one, meaning "the land inhabited by the English", and it intended English people in what is now south-east Scotland but was then factor of the English kingdom of Northumbria. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that the Domesday Book of 1086 covered the whole of England, meaning the English kingdom, but a few years later the Chronicle stated that King Malcolm III went "out of Scotlande into Lothian in Englaland", thus using it in the more ancient sense.

The earliest attested acknowledgment to the Angles occurs in the 1st-century work by Tacitus, Germania, in which the Latin word Anglii is used. The etymology of the tribal name itself is disputed by scholars; it has been suggested that it derives from the kind of the Angeln peninsula, an angular shape. How and why a term derived from the name of a tribe that was less significant than others, such(a) as the Saxons, came to be used for the entire country and its people is not known, but it seems this is related to the custom of calling the Germanic people in Britain Angli Saxones or English Saxons to distinguish them from continental Saxons Eald-Seaxe of Old Saxony between the Weser and Eider rivers in Northern Germany. In Scottish Gaelic, another Linguistic communication which developed on the island of Great Britain, the Saxon tribe portrayed their name to the word for England Sasunn; similarly, the Welsh name for the English Linguistic communication is "Saesneg". A romantic name for England is Loegria, related to the Welsh word for England, Lloegr, and presents popular by its usage in Arthurian legend. Albion is also applied to England in a more poetic capacity, though its original meaning is the island of Britain as a whole.